Saturday January 23rd, 2021 -
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- According to John Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, as of November 2020, the nonprofit workforce remained down by nearly 878,000 jobs compared to February 2020, representing a 7% decline from its pre-pandemic level.
- The U.S. Small Business Administration, in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury Department, re-opened the second round of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding without much fanfare on Jan. 11, nearly two weeks after Congress approved the $908 billion the stimulus package.
- Jerome Wilson Jr., of Little Rock, graduated in December with a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law as well as a Master of Public Service from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
- Americans have no shortage of things to fear in 2021, from losing ground to the coronavirus impacting worldwide health and economies to social unrest and political division awaiting the new White House administration.
- Although the nation’s broader economy has struggled to remain viable amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s housing market has stood out as the shining star in an otherwise gloomy economic landscape and is expected to continue rising in 2021.
- The average square footage of new homes sold in the United States increased from 2,457 in 2010 to 2,724 in 2015 but dropped in 2019 to 2,518, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau’s released on Dec. 22 on characteristics of new housing in America.
- At 73, Carolyn Wilkerson has completed her lifelong dream of earning a bachelor’s degree.
- As hospitals in Arkansas and across the U.S. fill up with new COVID-19 cases, Congress on Sunday (Dec. 21) finally approved a $900 billion stimulus package to prop up the nation’s flailing economy as coronavirus vaccines begin arriving in communities nationwide.
- It goes without saying, 2020 has been a tough year for small business.
- Only two days after the federal Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first shipments of the drug began arriving in Arkansas and other states across the U.S. on Monday (Dec. 14) as the total number of deaths topped 300,000 nationwide.